A head-and-shoulders illustration of Boheng. They have messy dark hair, big glasses, and a slight close-mouthed smile. They are wearing a pink shirt.

chronicle of a snowstorm foretold by Boheng C. '28

only a week late ;-;

It has been four years since Boston’s last snowfall greater than 6 inches.

— “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new england”, the tech

from Sunday 06z to Monday 06z, the QPF is forecasted to be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches (assuming the temperature remains in the 20s), with an additional 5 inches of snow from Monday 06z to Tuesday 06z…

— pset submission for my class (12.310: introduction to weather forecasting)

Due to winter weather, MIT will be closed for all non-essential employees beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 25.

[…]

Employees who are able to work remotely, including those on a hybrid schedule, are generally expected to work their regularly scheduled hours, without regard to a closure. More detail can be found in MIT’s Employment Policy Manual.

Faculty and instructors scheduled to teach classes during this closure are encouraged to communicate with their classes about how this snow closure will be handled.

— email from mit emergency management, january 24

window with snowstorm outside and opposite parallel dorm building in background

view from my room near the beginning of the storm

blurry snow-covered roofs as seen from above, with streetlights and windows penetrating the snowy haze

building 16/56 (foreground) and building 26 (background, to the left) as seen from the green building

two large aluminum tins on a table filled to the brim with assorted chocolate chip and plain cookies

cookies from 2^n cookies, a traditional event for my dorm (east campus)’s bad ideas weekend! we try to bake as many cookies as possible and we hit n=11 (2048) as the storm reached its peak

vast snow pile towering over solitary streetlight at night illuminating stray snow particles

outside of building 54

sidewalk of snow-covered bridge with frozen river on the left-hand side and melancholy streetlights in the distance

harvard bridge, looking south towards boston

small horizontal cave entrance around one meter high in a snow pile

snow cave between buildings 14 and 50 (“frosty’s hole”)

frozen charles river covered in a thick layer of snow, with docks and boats in foreground

charles river at the docks

boston skyline at night seen from the upper floors of a building, with a frozen charles river in the foreground and a deep dark partially clouded sky in the background

boston skyline with river at midnight

people huddling around a campfire surrounded by thick snow in the foreground with trees and sunset in the background

the annual end-of-january outing that tetazoo (my floor) organizes

shadowy forest at night covered in snow, with a narrow hiking trail illuminated tenuously by headlights and various people ahead

trekking through the woods after tetazoo outing, knee-deep in fluffy snow